We haven’t read it yet (we will), but his rallying cry, which is a little bit like think globally, act locally, but more like think locally and also act locally, calls upon us all to get started in small ways, wherever we are, on building Earth 2.0. Here’s the promotional video for the book:

Hopkins’s previous work has been co-founding a “Transition Town” in Ireland, and writing The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependence to Local Resilience and The Transition Companion: Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times.

You can meet Hopkins, who normally hangs at home in Ireland, at various stops in the U.S. this fall, including at SXSWEco in Austin Oct. 7-9. Oddly enough, SXSWEco last year hosted Annie Leonard, famous for her work, The Story of Stuff.

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